Using Docker in the VO

[Gaudet, Severin]

Hi Dave

The NuGrid project has deployed a persistent VM on the CANFAR platform that uses docker to provide iPython sessions to their user community to explore large data cubes from simulations. The data is in a mounted VOSpace. Access is either anonymous (public) or authenticated,

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> Le Mar 4, 2015 à 2:27 PM, Andre Schaaff <andre.schaaff at astro.unistra.fr> a écrit :
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> Maxime Heckel who worked on SkyTouch made us a presentation and a demo of Docker in September 2013.
> It was a young but promising project.
> As it is now mature it is in our plan for this year to experiment it. It should start in mid April in the frame of an internship. And we will be happy to share and collaborate.
> 
> Regards
> 
> André 
> 
> Le 4 mars 2015 à 20:43, Dave Morris <dmr at roe.ac.uk> a écrit :
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Is anyone using Docker?
>> https://www.docker.com/
>> 
>> We are starting to use it both for deploying services and for wrapping applications.
>> 
>> A recent paper looks at using Docker to wrap applications like R, which might have interesting applications in our field.
>> http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.0846v1
>> 
>> If anyone is interested in using Docker in the VO let me know.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Dave
>> 
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>> Dave Morris
>> Software Developer
>> Wide Field Astronomy Unit
>> Institute for Astronomy
>> University of Edinburgh
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